SRINAGAR: Body of an elderly mentally challenged man was recovered from river Puhroo in Lokipora Kralgund in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Wednesday nearly a week after he went missing, officials said.
Quoting officials news agency GNS reported that body of 75-year-old Ghulam Ahmad Mir alias Amm Darvesh, a resident of Bunpora Langate Handwara was fished out from the river this morning.
According to officials, Mir had been missing from his home for nearly a week now.
The body has been lifted from the site and taken to District Hospital Handwara for medical examination, they said.
